Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Brazil's Speaker Plays for Time to Dodge Corruption Probe

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Brazilian lawmakers almost came to blows on Thursday in a heated committee hearing that failed for a sixth time to decide whether to investigate lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha for lying about his bank accounts in Switzerland. Tempers frayed when Cunha's opponents on the committee called for a plenary vote in the lower house to remove Cunha as speaker, amid mounting frustration at what his critics say is his use of bureaucratic trickery to obstruct its hearings. Cunha and his...

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